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Letters Patent 77,7.39, 'dated May 12, 1868,

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TO ALL WHOM.IT MAY. CONCERN:

Be it known that I, G'EQRGE G, KNOWLES, ,ofWakefield, in the county ofv Washington, and State ot' Rhodo Tsl'and, haveinvented a'new and useful Improvement in Machines for Stirring and RakingHay; and I do-hereby declare the following to be a full and corredt description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing s, and to the letters marked thereon-- The same.letters' referring to like parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of themachine when used as a teddcr.

Figure 2 is a top view of the same, 7

Figure3 is a top view of-the machine when, used as a horse-rake.

Figure 4 isa vertical section of the same, taken through in the'direction of red line, fig. 3. I I

The construction is as follows: The two wheels A A are placedon short axles secure'djo thetwoside hars G C, which are extended out in front to form the thills; and a cross-bar, S, is put across from one tolthe other to hold them together, and to hold the drivers'seat J, with the arrangements-to,operate'the rake by. Thetedder-reel consists of a shaft, D, lying-in bearings at the back ends of the bars 0 C, and having three crossbar's G G G, which form-the arms of the reel, fastened to it.

I The bars V,V are put in hearings in'the ends of the arms, and have secured on theirouter ends, four segmenbwheels or triangular pieces tt t t, which hold the rods K K,'around which 'the' teeth 'gg g'are coiled, their inner'ends being held the barsV V.' To the other corners of the triangles t t are secured the ends of the e ccentric-plates-r r r 1, which are on .the eccentrics z'z, fastnedto the plates pp. The plates 10 p, are fastcned to the barsC O, by the pins o o", and kept down in place, when in operation, by the buttons. D D. -By turning back the buttons, the shaft andreel may be raised out-of place, so as2to b'e outj of gear when driving to the field. Two gear-wheels O O are placed on the ends of the reel-shaft D, and mesh into the two internal gear wheels B B, fastened on the inside'of the driving-wheels A A."

The wheels 0 O are loose on the reel-shaft, but are made to turn it in one direction bymeans of the ratchet wheels a z, and their pawls. v

lVhen used as a rake,'the tedder-r eel is taken out by removingthe pins 0' 0', and the shaft C is placed in the bearings over the axles, and is held down in' place by the hut tonsD D. Around this shaft 'thespring-i teeth a a a are coiled, and one end of thein s'eeured to the bar N. A short cross-plate, c is fastened to the middle of the shaft 0, to the ends of which arc hooked the ends of the strap c",'whichis fastcned around a roll, Z, under the drivers seat, iwhere it is controlled bya gear -wheehf, meshing into a smaller gear on the roll. A lever, 22, fastened to the wheelfis used to-operatc the roll by, so that by moving the'lover back and forward,

the roller will draw the strap one Way and the other, andiraise or lower-the rake-teeth from the ground. On

the frame, by the side of the seat J, are catches W, to hold the lever when moved to place.

The operation of the rake is this Being drawn forward over the field, withthe leyer a;"in the frontnotch on'the catch W, the teeth will be held down to catch the hay; ,but when the rakeis as full as desired, the driver, by pulling the lever :12 back to the rear. notch, raises the teeth of the rake, and releases the hay collected by them. p Y 1 The operation of the teddcr is as follows: When the machine is' drawn over tlie grass, thedriying-wheels A A drive the reel around, by means of the gear-wheels B and O. When the bars with the'tecth are down, the teeth are held in a vertical '-position to catch the grass, and stir it-as they rise; but when the teeth are'at the top, they are in a horizontal position, to free them from the grass. These difierent positions are produced by means of theccentrics, and their platcs, which turn the triangular pieces down as the teeth rise. Havingdescribed my hay-tedder and rake, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv I The combination of the eccentric-plates r r r 1', with the triangles t t t t, and bars K, V, 'as and for the purposeherein described.

' GEORGE G. KNOWLES. Witnesses: HAZARD G. KNowLns,

ALEXANDER Bsecoc'x. 

